Green Notes, Explained: Reading a Scent Like a Garden

Green notes are the smell of living things: crushed leaves, cut stems, fig skin, rain on warm soil. In perfumery they give a scent its feeling of freshness — the difference between a fragrance that glows and one that merely shines.

Reading a green scent is simple. Spray once on paper and wait two minutes past the first bright rush. What remains is the true green heart. In Verde Assoluto you will find bitter orange and leafy stems; in Jardin Vert, dewy botanicals and soft rain musk.

Green scents love warm weather and daylight. They project beautifully in open air and sit close in cold rooms, which makes them ideal daily wear — present without ever entering the room before you do.

Try this: wear a green scent three days in a row and notice how differently it reads each morning. Humidity, sleep, even your breakfast change what your nose finds. A garden never smells the same twice, and neither does a good green perfume.